

From spec’ing, design, documentation, bugs, and of course, coders as long as you abide by the contributor’s guide. The project that welcomes contributions of all types. Today PowerToys are free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License and hosted on GitHub. Amongst others, some of these functions were: CDAutoPlay which made non-audio CD automatically play, FindX which added drag-and-drop capabilities to Find (now called Search), Send To X which added the ability to send items to clipboard or desktop. Back in the olden-Windows day, these utilities performed extra functions that “power users” wanted. PowerToys are essentially a bunch of free system utilities and enhancements for Windows that were originally developed by Microsoft but didn’t make it into the official “Windows release”.


Let me introduce you to the Windows 10 PowerToys! What are Microsoft PowerToys? And now with Windows 10 we can do that again. A set of tools we had back in the windows 95 days that allowed us to add additional features and cool utilities to our Windows. Microsoft has brought back a blast from the past.
